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| Tango01 | 01 May 2015 11:27 p.m. PST |
The 'Waterloo' cartoon. "Some exciting news from the RA Collection, as a unique but largely forgotten work of art is being brought to light. Thanks to a generous grant from Arts Council England, Daniel Maclise's Waterloo cartoon is to undergo conservation treatment in time for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 2015. The size, condition, and subject matter of this monumental drawing have conspired to keep it under wraps for a very long time, and we're delighted to be making it accessible online and in future displays. We'll be documenting this process online as well so be sure to watch this space. I first saw Maclise's Waterloo cartoon in a store room in East London nearly two years ago, and I was hugely impressed. The drawing has been hidden away in storage for decades so this was a rare opportunity. Doing my homework beforehand, I read up on the reviews it received back in 1859 when it was first put on display. At that time, critics hailed the cartoon as ‘magnificent', ‘a marvel in art' and ‘the greatest work of its class that has been produced in England'. I thought this was all just Victorian hyperbole but I was surprised to find that the cartoon still packs a very powerful visual punch. Apart from any other considerations, I had never seen a drawing this big before. It is genuinely monumental in scale, measuring nearly 12 metres in width and over 3 metres in height. Maclise wanted to work on this huge composition in his own home so he had the paper fixed to 10 panels and worked on each one separately before joining them together again once he had finished. It's a challenge to find a space large enough to even view a work of this size let alone to display it and when I saw the drawing, the ten panels were simply propped up side by side around the walls of a store room for a group of conservators and curators to examine. Even displayed in this makeshift way, and with parts of the drawing in poor condition, the cartoon still had great presence…"
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